Mr. Robot, Please Take My Job: Innovation Lets Us Accomplish More

Hello all. Since London, I've been working ~40hrs/week at the theatre. When I originally got the Dean's fellowship, I didn't know I'd be working that many hours, especially when the fellowship means I'm only supposed to be working 20hrs/week; however, I get paid for when I go over, so it's not all bad.

I keep going back and forth with theatre. When I first started, I absolutely hated it and was thinking of telling Matt "Hey. I'm only supposed to be working 20hrs/week and I know you want me to work more, but I need more time for myself!" I'm trying to make the attitude adjustment back to "theatre is something I enjoy and want to do" instead of right now it being something I have to do. I also like having an income and not spending more money than I earn.

Right now, my project is pretty cool. I have to make mechanical drawings of a new theatre, so I took a bunch of measurements in the theatre last Tuesday, and I've been drawing them up in a fancy program called Vectorworks used by lighting designers. What's really nice about this project is that I'm producing tangible evidence that I can use in the future to show that I'm a capable lighting designer and not some half-assed theatre kid.

Whatever I do, I want to do it to the best of my ability and between computer science, theatre, a possible entrepreneurship minor, piano, and having friends, I've been having to eliminate the parts that I don't like. Theatre is a rough job with lots of ups and downs, but by working in a real workplace with real responsibilities, I'm learning real lessons in the workplace like learning how to deal with tasks I don't like... like mopping. I personally think we should get a self-cleaning robot. Economically, it makes perfect sense to do so. If we spend $30/week on labor sweeping and then mopping the floor (3 people working for an hour), then it pays for itself in a month. The iRobot brand costs more, but it’s really not hard to attach a few motors to a robot that sucks air, sprays liquids, and moves itself. Thus, there are cheap knock-offs. 

Nobody likes to sweep and mop the floors, but we also know it has to get done, and thus, we put up with it. I hear lots of people complain about robots taking our jobs, but innovation would let me focus more on the design part of the job.

Especially because I drew half the grid upside down until I noticed something really weird is going on and discovered after 3hrs of drawing that I drew it upside down. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Darn consequences of my own actions.